Re: [Nix-dev] Announce list?

2015-01-07 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 07-01-2015 16:38:39, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 01/07/2015 05:19 AM, Martin Bravenboer wrote: > > It would be nice if people who want to follow releases or major events > > can sign up for an email list with low traffic. > > Alternatively, our news on nixos.org could have an RSS/atom feed. Thi

Re: [Nix-dev] Cannot start KMail, akonadi cannot be started

2015-01-07 Thread Matthias Beyer
Hi, short update: After I did a `nixos-rebuild switch`, I can boot and start my kde session, but the plasma desktop crashes right after I logged in via kdm. Trying to solve this now. Hints appreciated! :-) On 07-01-2015 18:04:50, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Hi, > > thank you a lot for your help! >

[Nix-dev] State of ruby(gems) + nix?

2015-01-07 Thread Matthias Beyer
Hi, can someone update me for the state of ruby(gems) + nix? I have an idea how to re-use gems with the nix pkg manager, but maybe there is already a working solution! -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Kind regards, Matthias Beyer Proudly sent with mutt. Happily signed with gnupg. pgpmn6AgXBPYq.pg

Re: [Nix-dev] Cannot start KMail, akonadi cannot be started

2015-01-07 Thread Matthias Beyer
Hi, thank you a lot for your help! On 07-01-2015 16:43:13, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 01/07/2015 11:25 AM, Matthias Beyer wrote: > > How to properly start the akonadi daemon or solve this problem in > > another way? > > Some kde4 packages have problems unless you set > services.xserver.desktopMan

Re: [Nix-dev] Cannot start KMail, akonadi cannot be started

2015-01-07 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/07/2015 11:25 AM, Matthias Beyer wrote: > How to properly start the akonadi daemon or solve this problem in > another way? Some kde4 packages have problems unless you set services.xserver.desktopManager.kde4.enable = true; (because kde4 tends to rely a lot on environment to find daemons, pl

Re: [Nix-dev] Announce list?

2015-01-07 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/07/2015 05:19 AM, Martin Bravenboer wrote: > It would be nice if people who want to follow releases or major events > can sign up for an email list with low traffic. +1 Alternatively, our news on nixos.org could have an RSS/atom feed. (There were only 9 items during 2014.) Vladimir _

Re: [Nix-dev] mercury

2015-01-07 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 07/01/15 02:41, Karn Kallio wrote: > The attached patch advances the version of the Mercury compiler from 14.01 to > 14.01.1 Applied, thanks! -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.

[Nix-dev] Cannot start KMail, akonadi cannot be started

2015-01-07 Thread Matthias Beyer
Hi, I'm trying nixos with KDE in a virtualbox VM atm. I'm trying to get KMail running, it says it needs akonadi. According to this[0] thread on github, I should include kde4.akonadi kde4.kdepim_runtime in my packages. I included them, but after a reboot the KDE Plasma desktop crashes a

Re: [Nix-dev] Encrypted root: LUKS over LVM

2015-01-07 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> That's odd. Do you have any idea why e2fsck is failing? Nope. > What happens if you run e2fsck -n /dev/main/main after booting? # e2fsck -n /dev/main/main e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) Warning! /dev/main/main is mounted. Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem c

Re: [Nix-dev] VMware Guest Tools

2015-01-07 Thread Tinker
> On 06 Jan 2015, at 12:55, v.volle wrote: > > @Brandon Martin: How did you mount the VMWare Tools CD. I always get: > “VMWare Tools is not available for this guest” (I chose "Linux Other 3.x > Kernel 64 Bit”) > > Or did you download the VMWare tools? > > I would be interested as well in inst

[Nix-dev] Call for participation: BOB Conference 2015 on Jan 23 in Berlin (includes Nix talk)

2015-01-07 Thread Michael Sperber
At BOB 2015, Rok Garbas will give a talk on Nix: http://bobkonf.de/2015/garbas.html Lots of other great talks besides that one! BOB 2015 Conference "What